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The European project 'Acoustic reduction in European languages' investigates how speakers and listeners process acoustically reduced words, such as the pronunciation 'yesay' for 'yesterday' and 'onry' for ordinary', in six European languages (Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, and Spanish). Essential to this research program are corpora of highly spontaneous speech, which exist for English and Dutch, but which will have to be compiled for Estonian, Finnish, French, and Spanish in the course of this project. Complementary to corpus based research, the processing of acoustic reduction will be addressed by means of series of psycholinguistic experiments.

The project has as its principal investigator Dr M. Ernestus. It is funded by a European Young Investigator award, as well as by the Max Planck Institute for psycholinguistics and by the Radboud University. The research group is located in the building of the Max Planck Institute, on the campus of the Radboud University, in Nijmegen, The Netherlands. This location guarantees a stimulating research environment with excellent experimental facilities. It offers researchers the possibility to develop interdisciplinary skills and to discuss their work with many internationally renowned scholars.

The project is now offering a position for a PhD-student who will investigate the production and comprehension of fine phonetic detail accompanying acoustic reduction. The PhD-student will investigate the acoustic traces that are left by reduction during speech production, and the consequences of these traces for the listener during comprehension.

The focus of this subproject will be on Dutch and English. Applicants should therefore be fluent in these languages. In addition, they should have a master's degree in linguistics, phonetics, or psychology, or receive this degree within a few months. The successful candidate will receive a three-year contract at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen, under the conditions for PhD-students at this institute.

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